Long-Wang( Patrick ) Chiang
姜龍王 Patrick (Ming-Chun) Chiang (b. 1990, Taipei) is a Taiwanese artist based in the Netherlands. His video installations explore technological displacement through long-term relationships with the people who build our world's infrastructure. Working across documentary film, installation, and public art, he asks how planetary technological systems transform our sense of home and belonging.
Chiang holds dual MFAs in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts (2017) and Geo-Design from Design Academy Eindhoven (2025). After his first master's degree, he founded Bridgehead Art Studio in Taiwan, where he spent five years as an installation designer building large-scale light works for festivals and public events. Collaborating with engineers, architects, and construction crews, he began asking whose labor remains visible once a work is finished. Where does artistic value come from: the object or the people making it?
Guard of Art (2016) came from this question. Chiang shot the documentary while working as an installation guard during Chinese New Year. He filmed his coworkers, their conversations, and the waiting around. The film asks whether art's value sits in the finished piece or somewhere in the making of it. The Artist (2021) continued this thread as an interactive video installation. Chiang spent five years filming three young artists in Taiwan: a gallery artist, a subcontractor, and a graduate student, then cut the footage into a game-like structure where viewers choose their own path through stories of rent, ambition, and exhaustion.
Microchips Recipes (2025) brings this same approach to a bigger question. Chiang cooked and ate with Taiwanese semiconductor workers at TSMC in Taiwan and ASML in the Netherlands. The three-channel video installation shows engineers who live between countries, building the chips that power everything while feeling unsettled themselves.
As a Taiwanese artist living in Europe, Chiang examines this condition from inside it. His ongoing Dragon King's Feast (2024 to present) gathers migrants in Eindhoven around dinner tables, creating space for intimate conversations about identity, struggle, and belonging in a city shaped by globalization and high-tech industry. The project asks how we understand displacement not as an individual experience but as what philosopher Yuk Hui calls technological homelessness: the structural condition of building planetary systems. What forms of belonging emerge when home itself becomes a question that technology poses?
These questions about art labor, technological labor, and technology's transformation of belonging shape Chiang's current work on cosmotechnics, migration, and the lived experience of building systems at planetary scale.
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Chiang holds dual MFAs in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts (2017) and Geo-Design from Design Academy Eindhoven (2025). After his first master's degree, he founded Bridgehead Art Studio in Taiwan, where he spent five years as an installation designer building large-scale light works for festivals and public events. Collaborating with engineers, architects, and construction crews, he began asking whose labor remains visible once a work is finished. Where does artistic value come from: the object or the people making it?
Guard of Art (2016) came from this question. Chiang shot the documentary while working as an installation guard during Chinese New Year. He filmed his coworkers, their conversations, and the waiting around. The film asks whether art's value sits in the finished piece or somewhere in the making of it. The Artist (2021) continued this thread as an interactive video installation. Chiang spent five years filming three young artists in Taiwan: a gallery artist, a subcontractor, and a graduate student, then cut the footage into a game-like structure where viewers choose their own path through stories of rent, ambition, and exhaustion.
Microchips Recipes (2025) brings this same approach to a bigger question. Chiang cooked and ate with Taiwanese semiconductor workers at TSMC in Taiwan and ASML in the Netherlands. The three-channel video installation shows engineers who live between countries, building the chips that power everything while feeling unsettled themselves.
As a Taiwanese artist living in Europe, Chiang examines this condition from inside it. His ongoing Dragon King's Feast (2024 to present) gathers migrants in Eindhoven around dinner tables, creating space for intimate conversations about identity, struggle, and belonging in a city shaped by globalization and high-tech industry. The project asks how we understand displacement not as an individual experience but as what philosopher Yuk Hui calls technological homelessness: the structural condition of building planetary systems. What forms of belonging emerge when home itself becomes a question that technology poses?
These questions about art labor, technological labor, and technology's transformation of belonging shape Chiang's current work on cosmotechnics, migration, and the lived experience of building systems at planetary scale.
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FULL CV
Artist, Filmmaker, Design researcher. Lives and works in Taiwan & the Netherlands.